He Remote Viewed for U.S. Intelligence | What He Learned About Death Is Extraordinary!

Main Ideas and Experiences

Career After Project Stargate

Joe McMoneagle says he was the first person to leave the U.S. military’s Stargate unit and work at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). After leaving the Army in 1984, he started a company called Intuitive Intelligence Applications and later pursued research at SRI, which he saw as a place to study remote viewing scientifically.

Work With Ingo Swann

McMoneagle recalls that SRI researcher Hal Puthoff was initially concerned that he and remote viewer Ingo Swann might clash. They got along, and Swann showed him his method. McMoneagle says he did not adopt it, preferring a technique he had developed through years of practice and problem-solving.

A Claimed SRI Record

McMoneagle says he completed six remote-viewing tasks at SRI, matching five targets particularly well and coming close on the sixth. He describes this as a record that had not been surpassed.

A Story Involving a Soviet Submarine

McMoneagle recounts meeting a former senior KGB official who said that a remote-viewing account McMoneagle had written about a submarine was accurate. The official claimed that a Soviet source inside the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency had confirmed it. This is presented as an anecdote and is not independently substantiated in the subtitles.

Experiment With a Russian Psychic

McMoneagle describes a joint experiment with a Russian woman whom he calls the program’s best psychic. They were placed in separate, heavily shielded sensory-deprivation chambers and given digital drawing pads. After a period to decide who would send and receive, each drew during a timed session.

McMoneagle says the drawings looked nearly identical when shown on computers, but the organizers would not give them copies. He says he could not determine whether the result was genuine or how the system had been arranged.

Remote Viewing of Mars

McMoneagle says the Department of Defense gave him a set of GPS coordinates to investigate while he was at the Monroe Institute with Bob Monroe in 1983. He reports describing six of seven locations, which he later learned were on Mars and dated to roughly one million years BCE.

His impressions included a large ancient city or pyramid, chambers or “hibernation pods,” a past disaster, and inhabitants who looked human but were much taller. He says he later obtained image negatives at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This account is his recollection and is not verified by the subtitles.

What He Believes Remote Viewing Suggests About People

After decades of work, McMoneagle says he believes humans are more than physical bodies and can engage with spiritual or nonphysical ideas while also living practical, embodied lives. He criticizes people’s tendency to divide themselves by culture or religion and argues that religious teachings are often distorted to serve power, status, or money.

His View of Death and the Life Review

Drawing on his reported near-death experience and out-of-body experiences, McMoneagle describes death as a change of state—“a change of clothes”—rather than an ending. He says people carry the memories of their lives with them and, in a life review, experience the effects their actions had on others.

In his framing, recognizing harm and selfishness resembles hell, while a life of constructive actions and care resembles heaven. He suggests that this feedback is intended to support learning and growth; failing to learn may mean repeating the same patterns.

A Story About Service and a Later Reunion

McMoneagle recalls living in a village near Nong Khai, Thailand, in 1972. He says he and a partner dug a well, shared a Christmas-tree display with villagers, and taught children basic hygiene.

Years later, while hospitalized in the United States, he met a Thai nurse who had grown up in Nong Khai. She recognized him by the children’s nickname for him, “gray ghost.” He presents this encounter as one of several striking reunions with people he had met in distant places.

Health Experiences

McMoneagle says he had heart attacks and open-heart surgery in 1985, followed by another operation in 1998. He recalls that during the later procedure, his surgeon found that his heart had healed in an unexpected way and did not need the planned work.

Methodology Described

McMoneagle’s Personal Remote-Viewing Approach

McMoneagle says he developed his own technique over about seven years, mainly through practice and finding ways around difficulties. Although Swann taught him his method at SRI, McMoneagle says he did not use it.

Russian Sensory-Deprivation Experiment

1. Two participants entered separate underground chambers about 60 feet apart.
2. Each sat in a chamber with a digital pad and electric pen. The doors were closed, and the lights, ventilation, and sound were cut off.
3. The participants had time to decide which would send a message and which would receive it.
4. At a signal, they drew or recorded impressions. A second signal ended the session.
5. Their work was displayed on computers for comparison. McMoneagle says the images appeared almost identical, but the organizers withheld copies, leaving him uncertain about the result.

Mars-Coordinate Session

A set of seven GPS coordinates was supplied on a card. McMoneagle says he described six locations while in an isolation chamber, then learned the target was Mars, circa one million years BCE. He later sought images corresponding to the coordinates at JPL.

Speakers and Sources

• Primary speaker: Joe McMoneagle, the interviewee and source of the experiences and interpretations summarized above.
• Other identifiable voices: No interviewer is clearly heard in the subtitles. McMoneagle recalls or quotes Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swann, Bob Monroe, a former KGB official, a Russian psychic, a surgeon, and a nurse; they do not appear as identifiable speakers in the transcript.
• Organizations and institutions mentioned: Project Stargate, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the Monroe Institute, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA, and Russian intelligence or program officials.